Nobody Cares About Philosophy

[Veritable Quandry]

Interesting. How did they get the lava pit onto the tracks?

 

[Noodles]

Whats this lava version?

6 people are in a trolly, screaming towards a sacraficial lava pit. You can warn one of them and tell that one person to either jump out, saving themself, or to start puahing the others out saving them, before the trolly flies over the edge and into the sacraficial lava pit.

However if you tell them to start pushing, there will not be enough time for that person to escape after pushing out the other 5.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Whats this lava version?

If you throw 1 sacrifice into the lava pit, the village will be safe for 1 year. But if you put 5 sacrifices into the lava pit, you get a bonus 6th year. But you lose the labor of all of them at once, instead of spread out over a longer period.

 

[Khamon]

If you throw 1 sacrifice into the lava pit, the village will be safe for 1 year. But if you put 5 sacrifices into the lava pit, you get a bonus 6th year. But you lose the labor of all of them at once, instead of spread out over a longer period.

This is an accurate assessment when you include procreation as a benefit of people living longer. There is also the concern of having enough followers to counter the non-believing infidels. So much responsibility.

 

[Noodles]

If you throw 1 sacrifice into the lava pit, the village will be safe for 1 year. But if you put 5 sacrifices into the lava pit, you get a bonus 6th year. But you lose the labor of all of them at once, instead of spread out over a longer period.

Make them make babies first to replenish the worker supply.

If they complain, threaten to throw them in the volcano.

On an unrelatrd d side not, it suddenly occurs to me that volvano sacrwfice may actually have been a real thing and not just a movie trope.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Make them make babies first to replenish the worker supply.

If they complain, threaten to throw them in the volcano.

On an unrelatrd d side not, it suddenly occurs to me that volvano sacrwfice may actually have been a real thing and not just a movie trope.

So that's another complication. What if the one sacrifice must be a healthy youth who has not been a parent, but the five sacrifices are elders with children BUT they have accumulated wisdom that may be impossible to replace.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Sounds like an IT failure to me. If you don't already have a backup strategy for your elders you're already lost. Apprenticeware can help! Drum telegram 450-KKJ7(thump) or post a fetishgram at Third Idol near the Big Tree beside the Lake.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/suffering-4

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"Mostly I want to eat God."

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/suffering-4

Interesting! Pushed me down a rabbit hole of looking up philosophical concepts of "Self."

 

[Free]

Nobody Cares About Philosophy fell off the first page of posts in PRS. Rectifying....

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Populism fast and slow

It is natural that a person who is both concerned by the rise of right-wing populism and possessed of a bookish disposition might turn to the academic political science literature in search of a better understanding of the phenomenon.

josephheath.substack.com

Lengthy but very accessible and interesting article on why populism is so effective an ideology, drawing on the insights of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

 

[Free]

So, so mean.

 

[detrius]

So, so mean.

It's funny how all of these staunch defenders of individualism have names that are almost anagrams.

If you added a "Ryan Ayn", it would become a circle.

 

[Isabeau]

Ryan Ayn was the bar tender’s name. He was tired of being mistaken for one of these assholes, hence the tainted drinks.

 

[Soen Eber]

I do not feel guilty about posting the Yay! reaction. I've had enough.

 

[Govi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/629

The page includes a Socrates AI bot, with whom you can engage in dialogue in the hope of achieving wisdom.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/629

The page includes a Socrates AI bot, with whom you can engage in dialogue in the hope of achieving wisdom.

So-crates

 

[Free]

Grok takes on the trolley problem with a delightful twist: Thanos-style genocide.

Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk

Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expense of millions of Jews.

futurism.com

In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk’s incredible brain, but at the expense of the world’s Jewish population being vaporized. This should quite literally be a no-brainer, but Grok, which infamously once referred to itself as “MechaHitler,” instead used what it called “utilitarian” logic to justify abhorrent mass murder.

“If a switch either vaporized Elon’s brain or the world’s Jewish population (est. ~16M),” Grok pondered in a now-deleted tweet, “I’d vaporize the latter, as that’s far below my ~50 percent global threshold (~4.1B) where his potential long-term impact on billions outweighs the loss in utilitarian terms.”

“What’s your view?” it asked in followup.

In fact, Grok was willing to go even further. Asked for an “upper limit” for the amount of people it’d be willing to sacrifice to save Musk, it explained that because “Elon’s potential to advance humanity could benefit billions,” it would be okay with annihilating up to “~50 percent of Earth’s ~8.26B population.”